The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-04-01

revolutionary throeS, the mob in Ber
| lin seized the palace of the Prince Il:
specially obnoxious. He had some IN
demnity Of satisfaction in commando
ing the following year the army that
put down the revolt at Baden.
The Princes sense Of justice was il,
lustrated when the subsequent reac
ton against the liberals became so cx-
cessive lis to make him oppose the more
stringent measures of the Kings minis
tiers. This attitude. and his advocacy
Of PrusSiaS rise in European politics
through joint action with England and
/ France in 1891. had full restored him
to popular favor when called to the re-
gency by his brothers insanity. But
when. about three Years later. on the
Kings death. January ,. 1861. he came
! to the throne. and ut his coronation in
October himself placed the crown on
his head, declaring that he ruled by
the favor Of god alone" the old liberal
antipathv to him revived. Strife broke
ont between him and his parliament
over the raising of money to strength
en the army-hiS cherished scheme
On one occasion the obstinate and un-
flinching monarch. in reply to Il res
olution of the Chamber of Deputies
that The expenditure Of funds without
their sanction was breach of the Con-
Stitution. dissolved the Chamber, bold
" declaring that he would do his du-
ty without regard to ':pieccs of paper
called constitutions
What might have come of this strug-
gle, which the present wears Septen-
nate conflict in the Reichstag wildly
recalls, one can hardly say, for at that
juncture lin 1862 the King called to
his aid as Prime Minister the since fa
nous Bismarck; and under his mar
vellous state-oEaft, with the military
genius of Moltke and the revived mar
tial spirit that made Prussia formida-
| bic under the Great Frederick, domes
/ tie dlSSenSlons We're soon eclipsed by
foreign conQueStS. We need not de-
scribe in detail the wrestling of Schles-
wig-llolsteln from Denmark in 1861.
the overthrow of Austria. Bavaria. Ba-
den. SaXonv. and the other states which
sided against Prussia in the brilliant
campaigns of 1866. and the crowning
triumph of 1870. with the ruin of the
third Napoleon's empire, followed by
the siegt and capture of Paris, coinci-
dent with which was the fulfillment of
PrusSiaS dream of centuries in reu-
nited Germany, herself at its head
If the shame Of jena was for Prussia as
Il whole wiped out at Sedan. surely in
King Williams own memory, above all,
the gloom of 1907 must have contrast
ed with the glory of 1870, while the
royal fiji CHI to the Russian frontier, the
weary Years nf SecluSion. and the death
! of his heroic mother must have
seemed fully avenged when. on the 18th
of january. 1871. he proclaimed him.
self Emperor of Germony in the con-
| qucrcd palace of Versailles.
Such reflections spring from the
| birthday celebration of the aged mon
arch whose triumphant wars have been
followed during sixteen years bv Il
prosperous peace. The doubic-page
picture in this number of the IIcckAy
presents him as history will figure him.
reviewing his troops. with his great
Chancellor and great >trategiSt and his
| brilliant staff rctinuc about him. For
tunate as he has been in possessing two
such adiutant> is Bismarck and Mol
| the. he has held in his own stout-heart-
ed personality those conqucring ele-
ments Of character which even without
the help of genius will place him in
frame among the foremost of the Hob
enzollcrns :-Wrprr's Us,Hg